Tahqiq Projects

Seyyid Sharīf al-Jurjānī’s (d. 816/1413) Sharḥ al-Mawāqif, one of the classical works of kalām, is currently being critically edited by Abdülhamit Türkmen together with the author’s own marginal notes (minhüvāt) and approximately fifteen glosses (ḥāshiyas), most of which were written by Ottoman scholars. As was the case with the Ḥāshiya on al-Tajrīd previously published by İSAM, this corpus—consisting of the main text and its glosses—will be presented to the scholarly community in a specially designed format that accurately reflects its layered textual structure.

The manuscript used as the base text for the critical edition of Sharḥ al-Mawāqif was copied by a student of the author and subsequently collated with the author himself. This manuscript, of exceptional scholarly value, was transmitted across generations within the Ottoman learned milieu and became the basis for marginal notes and glosses written by prominent scholars such as Molla Fenārī (d. 834/1431), Muḥammad Shāh Fenārī (d. 839/1435 [?]), Qāḍīzāde Rūmī (d. after 844/1440), Ḥayālī (d. 875/1470 [?]), Ḥasan Çelebi (d. 891/1486), and Veliyyüddin Cārullah (d. 1151/1738). In addition to this manuscript, a number of other high-quality copies containing ownership notes and marginalia by renowned scholars are also being utilized in the editorial process.
Prepared as a long-term scholarly undertaking, this edition will include approximately fifteen significant glosses, most of them authored by Ottoman scholars. These comprise both independent and extensive glosses written by figures such as Molla Fenārī, Seyyid ʿAlī ʿAcemī (d. 860/1455), ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 887/1482), Ḥasan Çelebi, Ḥocazāde (d. 893/1488), Molla Luṭfī (d. 900/1495), Kara Kemal (d. 920/1514), Muḥyiddīn Fenārī (d. 929/1523), ʿAcem Sinān (d. 986/1578), Siyālkūtī (d. 1067/1657), and Kawākibī (d. 1096/1685), as well as more limited glosses written for specific sections or chapters by scholars such as Molla Luṭfī, Kestelī (d. 901/1496), Dawwānī (d. 908/1502), Ibn Kemāl (d. 940/1534), and Taşköprizāde (d. 968/1561). The project will also incorporate al-Suyūṭī’s work on the takhrīj of the ḥadīths cited in Sharḥ al-Mawāqif.

The edition, to be prepared for publication with a specially designed page layout, is planned to be published in stages. The first part, corresponding to approximately one quarter of the total projected volume, is scheduled for publication in 2026.